Your Week in Chess

Your Week in Chess

By Alex O'Connor and Jordan VasseurLeisureHobbies
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Your Week in Chess episodes

  • Chess Noire

    Inside, a man nursing a glass of something strong, the ice clinking like dice in a backroom game. His eyes, the color of week-old coffee, are fixated on a chessboard, the pieces locked in a silent, deadly tango.


    We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to being you Chess Noire, a mysterious chess podcast!

    34 min
  • Chess Tourney = Bodybuilding

    Jordan is solo today with an instant reaction to a tournament game played and recorded a couple months ago! Come for the weight lifting analogy and stay for the dive inside the stress of a weekend long tournament!


    Here are the moves if you want to laugh at my loss!


    1. e4 e6 2. d4 b6 3. Nc3 Bb7 4. Nf3 Bb4 5. Bd2 Bxc3 6. Bxc3 Bxe4 7. d5 Nf6 8. dxe6 O-O 9. exf7+ Rxf7 10. Ng5 Re7 11. Bxf6 gxf6 12. Nxe4 Rxe4+ 13. Be2 Qe7 14. O-O Rxe2 15. Qd5+ Kg7 16. Qxa8 Nc6 17. Qc8 Ne5 18. Qxc7 h5 19. Qc3 Ng4 20. Rae1 Qd6 21. Qg3 Qd2 22. Rxe2 Qxe2 23. h3 f5 24. hxg4 fxg4 25. Qb3 Kg6 26. Qd3+ {*}

    28 min
  • Precambrian Chess

    Whooooopieeeee we are talking about chess and hiking and being bad at technology and are just generally have a great time!


    Correspondence: https://www.chess.com/game/daily/576749449



    37 min
  • Victorian Sickness

    Guys! Do you like fun! I like fun and it's jam packed in this episode. Jordan went to his second ever chess tournament and did okay! He's also dealing with the aftermath of a sickness which turns laughs into coughs! Alex has taken his English opening out to pasture in favor of e4! He also got to play a satisfying Uno reverse card against a BMing opponent.


    Here is the article discussed: https://www.curbed.com/article/club-chess-maneros-of-mulberry.html

    39 min

About Your Week in Chess

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We are two chess lifers turning on microphones during our conversations! Sometimes we're trying to get better, sometimes we are trying to escape normal lifes, but we are always trying to have fun!